Overview

VP9, the WebM Project’s next-generation open video codec, is an open and royalty free video compression standard being developed by Google. As a successor to VP8, VP9 makes great progress in reducing bit rate. Given the same video quality, VP9 can reduce bit rate by 50% compared to VP8. Currently, Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera support playing VP9 video format in the HTML5 video tag. YodaNetwork supports VP9 for all video resolutions. Some smart TVs support VP9. And YouTube will be using VP9 for 4K resolution content.

VP9 has many advantages comparing to other video codecs. But how to encode video in WebM VP9 format. Right now there are’t any VP9 encoders on the internet. SUPER Converter is claimed to be able to encode WebM with VP9 video codec and Vorbis audio codec. However, SUPER Converter is ad supported software and it is only available in Windows version.

Don’t worry. This article introduces a professional VP9 Converter which is integrated of VP9 encoder and VP9 decoder. The VP9 Converter can help you create high quality WebM VP9 video as well as convert WebM VP9 videos to MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, etc.